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• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  , or on windy days that I chose to wear a hat. But other times, it was a ... strawberries for a dollar each. It was a sweltering hot day, so we retreated to ... become important cornerstones in my day to day life. And doing this self

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  for quicker or easier paths.  So anyway, I think a smart idea would be ... the Rapid Response Group. I remember cooking a lot, running every day ... next day. I understood a lot more of my psets. I read the entirety of the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  off every day, leaving you with 1) an invariable daily sense of ... . 1. Control your thoughts. Do not think of anything violent or ... ? Or is it fulfilling some sort of community service requirement? 1) We

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  ’m uneasy because I said I’d never do finance—or really anything other than research—and now I want to dip my toe (or maybe my head or my entire self ... manageable and interesting (but of course it's only week 1). I haven’t faced

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  January 12 Hostel Colonial House, Quito In retrospect, I do not recommend attempting to summit a volcano at 15,700 ft with only one day of ... *everyone* here asks us are 1) where we're from and 2) what we think of "my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  *) That’s right! Studying! Or psetting, or various academic ... have gone in (early action date was November 1st); the last ... them in one weekend just before the Jan. 1 deadline) (but would not

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  November 1, meaning you can submit your application any time on November 1 or ... registrations with applications, or should I leave them off of Part 1 of the ... submit it by November 1 if you are an Early Action applicant or by January

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  the hours i've spent in bed recently have added up, pointing to one ... least.) anyway, every day i'd wake up to a new message from someone ... considered a high risk person (which: do you have depression, ADHD, or other

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  , and a archived webcast you can watch on the site or on Facebook.

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Some CPW Thoughts The latest on CPW planning from the Admissions Office.

  

  hear from your CPW hosts tonight or tomorrow. Even if for some reason you ... night, after seeing the new banner for the Class of 2011 Facebook group, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  't read Reddit. I didn't see the EA Decisions Day threads. You could've told ... left 70.77% of applicants, or 10,673 applicants, to deferral. This is ... stories. Christmas came and went. New Years came and went. When Pi Day

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  to back meetings - there are 30 min or 1 hour spaces in between. My ... episode, or play Stardew Valley. And in the roughest days of my dad ... . I didn’t know what to do with myself or what was important to me

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  Procrastination For Finals ...so I cooked dinner instead.

  

  cook about 3 times in one semester) Mushroom Risotto! (serves two) 1 ... rice to get the consistency you see in risotto) 1/3 can of beef stock (in ... is kind of thick...) 1/2 can of water 1/3 of one onion, chopped into

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / Events

  APPLE BAKE channeling midterm stress into baking, sculpting, and completely destroying apples for decades

  

  apples (and/or pears) An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away - swap a ... (vegetarian) - appetizer/entree-like dishes that feature apples (and/or pear ... /entree-like dishes that feature apples (and/or pear) with meat ingredients Apple

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Financial Aid

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  handling their own finances in a day-to-day sense. As someone who notably ... make living work without having to eat instant ramen every day in the ... [/annotation] are as follows: [carousel image1="114193" image2="114194" image3

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  [/annotation] that we have extended the Regular Action deadline from January 1st to ... not need to do anything special to request or claim this extension ... forestall the inevitable next question, we don't know exactly what day we will

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  knew him, or because I followed his dictums and philosophy. But because ... . Everyone there lived very much in fear of Steve. No one ever joked, or even ... Goldstein in the legendary 1984 Mac ad and with irony which apparently escaped

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Events

  298 Tickets. All for us

  

  HP 7. Are you jealous?" "No." "Oh...Okay, bye." Talk about ... , as Facebook informed me later via a status update: hahaha :) I was ... better group of people with whom to watch HP 7, not the least because one

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  one or two on the third day before receiving a bid, aka an invite to ... laughing in the back room, gushing over the PNMs we had met that day or just ... sorority or spend a day with them which is really rare. In fact, I don't know

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / Events

  MITHenge Blinded by the light.

  

  very special sunrise. On this day, the summer solstice, the sun is ... religious or scientific purposes. Image from the BBC. A similar phenomenon occurs semiannually at MIT. For the past four special days, the sunset was

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 31, 2007